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A HOOSIER HOLIDAY


BY THEODORE DREISER

THE “GENIUS”

SISTER CARRIE

JENNIE GERHARDT

A TRAVELER AT FORTY

PLAYS OF THE NATURAL AND THE SUPERNATURAL

THE WARSAW HOME
The Mecca of this trip
Frontispiece

A HOOSIER
HOLIDAY

BY

THEODORE DREISER

WITH ILLVSTRATIONS

BY FRANKLIN BOOTH·

NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY

LONDON: JOHN LANE

THE BODLEY HEAD

MCMXVI

Copyright, 1916, by

John Lane Company

Press of

J. J. Little & Ives Company

New York, U. S. A.

TO

MY MOTHER